Finally, a social networking site that helps me for a change. It helps me manage and use my content. I have four blogs as many of you know. So, I'm into content. If I write things at 43 Things, some of them would be good posts to one or another of my blogs. So, I've registered my two more general interest blogs: this one and Janet's Genealogy Blog at 43 Things and when ever I make an entry over there, I can simply pick one of my blogs and hit the *Add this entry* button to do double-duty and get some blogging in.
Tonight I added a new goal: Take at least 1 genealogy research trip this year. And, then I posted a little entry about the trip I've got in mind. When it came time to hit the save button, I saw the blog selection button and decided to post to my genealogy blog. What a concept. That was the easiest thing I ever did!
Then, I fired up Marsedit to do some fine-tuning using some blockquote formatting, added more thoughts to the post and added a link to a book. I posted the edit there. Then I copied part of my post back to my entry in 43 Things. Cool!!!! This is exactly the kind of surpassing the SNS islands trick that we've been begging for.
I remember about a year ago writing to Ryze tech support asking them for a feature that would help me see my own guestbook posts and my forum posts. Nope!
43 Things lists all your most recent entries at the bottom of your *things* list. And there's a *See All of Janet Tokerud's entries* link handy. I want to see my own entries and if someone writes something interesting, I might just want to see theres.
And, a couple days ago I discovered how dead easy it was to get Flickr photos up on my 43 Things page. Thanks 43 Things for doing it right for a change!
And did I mention that it's got RSS feeds. Another content-savvy feature. As I said before, 43 Things rocks!